Levertov, Denise (Vol. 8) - Levertov, Denise 1923–
Levertov, Denise 1923–
Levertov is an English-born American poet. During her long career she has evolved from early verse influenced by the romanticism prevalent in Britain during World War II, through the influence of the Black Mountain poets, to become a unique poet whose verse consistently reflects her concern with the relation of form and content. The material for her poetry is drawn from her own experience, evoking both outward reality and inward response. (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 2, 3, 5, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
Through clean, simple, precise language [Levertov] seeks to record in terse pictures the vivid present, though not for its own sake so much as for the sake of a mystical vision of life…. In her fourth collection, The Jacob's Ladder…, the poems rise to greater heights, burn with a brighter light than Creeley's. At best they embody a humble immolation of vision, reveal beauty emerging from...
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